Thank you. Your instructions worked and I can now get a Gnome desktop
environment. I needed to add my apps to the panel but that was no big
deal.

I am now working in Gnome. Lovely.

Still a lot of errors in the .xsession-errors file I would like to
correct if I can. I have attached a file containing the contents of
the file immediately after successfully logging in with Gnome.
(current-xsession-errors.txt.gz)

Is the following error still indicate that I have a yum-updatesd error
to fix?
dbus.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The
name edu.duke.linux.yum was not provided by any .service files

<snip/>

Finally, yum-updatesd service is not running on system ( dbus error
message as seen from xsession-error file )

Use system-config-services to enable yum-updatesd service.

$ system-config-services

OK. Will do.

The error message is generated by an update application. I tend to be

allergic to automatic update, as i move between broadband,gprs and
dial-up.

Re: [opensuse] KDE WM appears to have died... Recently, running 11.4, happily for quite some time I might add, the login... Only got an error message for that. ... Would like to get back to KDE, but would not be against a Gnome...speak for a moment ...(SuSE)

Re: [opensuse] KDE WM appears to have died... Recently, running 11.4, happily for quite some time I might add, the login... Only got an error message for that. ... Would like to get back to KDE, but would not be against a Gnome...speak for a moment ...(SuSE)